Dear Robin, Great idea for a project! Mariana Valverde has an article on bans of individual drinkers in Ontario - A Postcolonial Women's Law? Domestic Violence and the Ontario Liquor Board's" Indian List," 1950-1990 M Valverde - Feminist Studies, 2004 - JSTOR All the best, Catherine On 29-Oct-10, at 9:52 AM, Courtwright, David wrote: > Robin and listmates, > > Interesting post. There's also a post facto version of person- > specific bans for drug users on probation or parole. It's called a > urine test. > > David > > David T. Courtwright > Presidential Professor > Department of History > University of North Florida > 1 UNF Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32224-2645 USA > > email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>; office phone: 904 > 620-1872; > office fax 904 620-1018; home phone 904 745-0530 > > ________________________________ > From: Alcohol and Drugs History Society [[log in to unmask]] > On Behalf Of Robin G W Room [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 6:24 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: individual drinker bans -- back to the future > > > Listmates -- > > Below you will find an initiative by the government of the > Northern Territory of Australia to institute a person-specific bans > on drinking. > There is an interesting cross-national piece to be done about > the prehistory of such measures, and I would be interested in > corresponding with ohters interested in this. In temperance times, > there were various initiatives to "blacklist" heavy drinkers, often > at the call of family members. It can be seen as part of the move > in the Progressive Era to have the state intervene in the family on > behalf of the weak against the strong (cf. for the US Tony Platt, > The Child-Minders). The supervisor of the Temperance Boards in > Sweden in 1940 described them as a defense for the family against > "petty domestic tyrants" (quoted from memory from the Helsinki ICAA > conference proceedings). Margaretha Jaervinen did an article in > Contemporary Drug Problems around 1991 about the Finnish alcohol > monopoly sending out inspectors to investigate where a woman seemed > to have been buying too much alcohol -- but not necessarily cutting > her off if it turned out she was buying for her husband as a way of > limiting his drinking -- i.e., using the wife as an agent of the > state's social control. The book Punched Drunk mentions the LCBO in > Ontario cutting off drinkers (putting them on what was known as the > "Indian list", in an era of Prohibition for nonassimilated > Aboriginal Canadians) in the 1950s at the request of wives and > other family members, although the statistics show clearly that > this request was often not accepted by the LCBO. There are still US > states with state liquor stores (Ohio, as I remember) where it is > theoretically possible for the family to ask the stores to > blacklist drinkers. > > Particularly where there had been a period of Prohibition, the > alcohol control laws in the 1920s-1950s often included these > individually-oriented controls, which were abandoned nearly > everywhere in the 1950s-1960s as seeming too much of an intrusion > on emerging standards of "privacy". (Part of the background of the > "purple book", Bruun et al. 1975, was the argument by civil- > libertarian sociologists in a Finnish context that universal > control measures such as price and hours of sale could be effective > without these individual-oriented measures). Now, with the > emergence of ASBOs under Tony Blair and similar individually- > oriented behaviour controls, we are back to the future. > The historically-oriented piece should take a look at how > effective such measures seem to have been. One clear signal of > their potential effectiveness is the large rise in cirrhosis > mortality after the abandonment of the Swedish alcohol rationing > system in 1955, studied by Thor Norstroem. > Robin > > ________________________________ > some detailes from the attachedfact-sheet: > Individual and Third-Party Referrals to the AOD Tribunal > It is anticipated that other people, such as the police, family > members and health workers, will be able to ask > the Tribunal to make orders against someone. For example, if one of > your family members has a drinking > problem and is causing harm, you would be able to go to the > Tribunal and ask them to make an order banning > your family member from purchasing take away alcohol. The AOD > Tribunal would look at what has been > happening and your family member would be assessed by a professional. > > A person with an alcohol problem could choose to get themselves > banned so they can more easily deal with > their alcohol or drug problem. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: CCH Parliament [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Thursday, 28 October 2010 3:33 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Political Alert - Draft Alcohol Bills Tabled in Parliament > (NT) > > Please find attached: > > DRAFT ALCOHOL BILLS TABLED IN PARLIAMENT (NT) > > The Minister for Alcohol Policy, Delia Lawrie, released two key pieces > of draft legislation that detail the most comprehensive alcohol > reforms > in the Territory's history. The draft Bills, the Prevention of > Alcohol-Related Crime and Substance Misuse Bill and the SMART Court > Bill > were tabled in the Northern Territory Parliament.